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This brief newsreel looks back at the 1928 premiere of the film "Noah's Ark". It may date to 1957, when the Dominant Pictures Corporation re-released a 75-minute version of the movie, produced by Robert Youngson. "Noah's Ark" debuted at Grauman's Chinese Theater in December of 1928, and famously the crowd was so huge that police passes had to be issued to vehicles using the boulevard. and patrons holding seats were ushered by uniformed policemen. The film includes shots of various stars and Hollywood big shots including leading man of "Noah's Ark" George O'Brien, Ruth Roland, John Boles, Lionel Barrymore, William Collier, Jr., Cecil B. DeMille, Darryl F. Zanuck, Irene Rich, Conrad Nagel, Gus Edwards, Benny Rubin, Reginald Denny, Ben Lyon, Monte Blue, Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Jr., Samuel Goldwyn, Joseph M. Schenck, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Noah Berry and Sid Grauman, owner of the theater. Dolores Costello, star of Noah's Ark, is shown. At 2:00 Hollywood Blvd. with spotlights is shown. At 2:14, Times Square and the Great White Way are shown. The film premiered at the Winter Garden Theater on Broadway.

Noah's Ark is a 1928 American part-talkie epic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The story is by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film was released by the Warner Bros. studio. Most scenes are silent with a synchronized music score and sound effects, in particular the biblical ones, while some scenes have dialogue.

The film premiered in Hollywood in late 1928, with a running time of 135 minutes. Originally, it had been planned as a silent film in 1926 for potential release in 1927, but a number of talking sequences were added. (These were directed not by Michael Curtiz but by Roy Del Ruth.) After the premiere, Warner Bros. withdrew the film for extensive revision, which included removing about a half-hour of footage, including all the talking scenes featuring Paul McAllister, who played both a minister and Noah. The film then opened around the country in reserved-seat engagements, after which it concluded its successful run at popular prices, even though by that time "part-talking" films like this one were considered nearly obsolete. Although it had cost far more than any Warner Bros. film to date—over $1 million—it ultimately grossed more than twice its cost.

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